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Ghostbusters (1984)

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Average Rating: 7.7/10
Reviews Counted: 53
Fresh: 50 | Rotten: 3

An infectiously fun blend of special effects and comedy, with Bill Murray's hilarious deadpan performance leading a cast of great comic turns.

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Average Rating: 6.5/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 2

An infectiously fun blend of special effects and comedy, with Bill Murray's hilarious deadpan performance leading a cast of great comic turns.

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Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson star as a quartet of Manhattan-based "paranormal investigators". When their government grants run out, the former three go into business as The Ghostbusters, later hiring Hudson on. Armed with electronic paraphernalia, the team is spectacularly successful, ridding The Big Apple of dozens of ghoulies, ghosties and long-legged beasties. Tight-lipped bureaucrat William Atherton regards the Ghostbusters as a bunch of charlatans, but is forced

Jun 29, 1999

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Whoever thought of having evil's final manifestation take the form of a 100-ft. marshmallow deserves the rational mind's eternal gratitude.

October 5, 2008 Full Review Source: TIME Magazine | Comment (1)
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Only intermittently impressive.

May 30, 2007 Full Review Source: Variety | Comments (19)
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Essentially a $30 million version of Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy but not at all a bad time, thanks mainly to Bill Murray's incredibly dry line readings and director Ivan Reitman's maintenance of a moderately coherent tone and plotline.

May 30, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comments (2)
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The story of a trio of incompetent 'experts' in the paranormal (Murray, Aykroyd and Ramis), who set up as ghostbusters after they are canned from their college sinecures, is less cynical a construction than it sounds.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
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This movie is an exception to the general rule that big special effects can wreck a comedy.

October 23, 2004 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times
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There is more attention to special effects than to humor.

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comments (27)
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In both the funny and the (mildly) scary moments, the cast does itself proud.

May 6, 2013 Full Review Source: Christian Science Monitor
Christian Science Monitor

"Ghostbusters" is a fun romp with a couple of comedy's greatest stars at the top of their game.

February 26, 2012 Full Review Source: MediaMikes
MediaMikes

As funny, spooky and marvellous as ever.

November 2, 2011 Full Review Source: Digital Spy
Digital Spy

It provoked huge box-office success in 1984 and is still director Ivan Reitman's defining movie.

October 31, 2011 Full Review Source: This is London
This is London

The leads' chemistry is almost, well, spooky, Dan Aykroyd's nerdy enthusiasm rubbing deliciously against a persona-perfecting turn from Bill Murray - and there's even the odd surprise.

October 28, 2011 Full Review Source: Total Film
Total Film

The often dazzling, special effects-driven slapstick tends to overshadow the fact that there are some slyer, more sophisticated laughs on offer in this blockbusting family comedy.

October 27, 2011 Full Review Source: Radio Times
Radio Times

What's not to like?

October 27, 2011 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK]
Guardian [UK]

Paranormal fun for tweens and up; some scares.

January 1, 2011 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media

A comedy first, a horror film second... but a successful enough hybrid of those things that it would be wrong to try to limit it generically.

August 26, 2010 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy
Antagony & Ecstasy

Ghostbusters, whaddya want?!

August 5, 2009 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine

The movie's tongue-in-cheek (and pre-subprime) satire of surging capitalist hubris is scarcely mitigated by the necessary fairy-tale ending.

August 5, 2009 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine

This is one of the best comedy-horror spoofs ever made. The Double Feature Gift set DVD released in 2005 is basically a repackaging of the previously issued single-disc DVD, plus the sequel. The set has some nice features but it is not quite a must-have.

June 16, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinefantastique
Cinefantastique

All the pieces still come together nicely 25 years after Ghostbusters raked in more than $238 million at the box office.

June 7, 2009 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis
Movie Metropolis

Stuffed with wisecracking, punning and essential deadpanning care of the film's most notable star performer Murray (who has such delivery down as a fine art), the film also packs in a half-decent narrative.

May 6, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4

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March 24, 2008 Full Review Source: Screen It!
Screen It!

Fantastic all the way

March 2, 2008

With his deadpan delivery and snide quips, Murray more than holds his own amid the myriad state-of-the-art special effects.

May 30, 2007 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide
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Audience Reviews for Ghostbusters

A fun-filled comedic adventure that's a true defining film of it's decade. Ghostbusters' combustion of laughter, special effects and a tactical cast makes it enjoyable and entertaining for all audiences. 4/5
May 13, 2013
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A total classic and with good reason. MVP Bill Murray. Full review later.
July 31, 2009
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